As industries like the automotive sector rebound, the demand for primary and secondary aluminum metal also has risen.
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It described how Baar, Switzerland-based Glencore provided Iralco with thousands of tons of alumina last year in exchange for a lesser amount of aluminum metal.
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Orders dropped for metals such as steel and aluminum, metal parts, electrical equipment and appliances, and defense aircraft.
For instance, when a product's aluminum surface is shrunk or bent, the amount of on-order aluminum sheet metal changes instantly.
The raw materials commodity index is unchanged year-over-year, with choppy charts in copper, aluminum and depressed precious metal quots.
One factor that might explain falling prices is the persistently high aluminum inventory relative to demand, which may be keeping a lid on London Metal Exchange prices for aluminum.
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Also, aluminum inventory continues to remain high relative to demand, keeping a further lid on London Metal Exchange prices for aluminum.
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The reason was the synergy effect of the two salts mixed, the Thimerosals toxicity climbs by 10 times when mixed with another metal such as Aluminum .
In his New York Times bestseller, Abundance, XPrize and Singularity University founder Peter Diamandis tells the story of how aluminum went from a rare metal to something we wrap our food in.
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Having started playing the social metal game with aluminum it will be interesting to see if the Chinese start acquiring other metals in the name of maintaining employment levels in loss-making mines and smelters.
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Omni sells metal parts like the aluminum housings that go into lighting fixtures in factories.
The price fall corresponds with a rise in the aluminum stockpile kept by the London Metal Exchange (LME) which was sitting close to a five-year high of 519, 000 tons in mid-February, but which has since slipped marginally to 517, 000 tons, indicating the that Chinese stockpile buying might have started when LME warehouses levels were approaching a peak.
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On both the 11- and 13-inch models the keyboard deck is fashioned out of smooth aluminum, with a large trackpad and metal keys.
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And it could sport an aluminum skin, to better match the metal and glass sheathed iPhones and iMacs introduced over the past few months.
Aluminum was an expensive and fashionable new metal in the 1930s, and although silver leaf is more commonly used and cheaper today, Mr. Malkin went for aluminum and authenticity in the restoration by EverGreene Architectural Arts.
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Although still invested in clean energy, Segrich has been holding more resource plays, such as recycling companies, like Horsehead Holding Corp. (NASDAQ: ZINC) and Globe Specialty Metals (GSM), which provides silicon metal to the Photovoltaic and Aluminum industries.
The suits themselves are a mix of resin and metal built on top of an aluminum understructure.
We wish ASUS had equipped the systems with metal keyboards to match the expanded aluminum touchpads, but the plastic keys felt plenty sturdy under our fingers.
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These projects will add to new aluminum supply at a time when demand for the metal is growing.
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There's also gray birch wood trim--or optional carbon fiber or aluminum--with lots of chrome and brushed metal splashed around the cabin and, naturally, S4 logos everywhere you look.
The improvement in sentiment on Friday resulted in a broad improvement in metal prices led by copper, aluminum and nickel.
Spartan Light Metal Products, a small Midwestern producer of aluminum and magnesium engine parts (and other mechanical parts), which presented its story to Obama administration officials, who were dispatched across the country earlier this year to get input from manufacturers about the problems they confronted in export markets.
In today's metal-based gadgets, you either need to bend a piece of sheet metal, or die-cast with an inferior alloy like aluminum or magnesium.
Aluminum can be more flexible than steel which can cause some issues when stamping the metal into shape, but those details are being worked out.
It's focusing instead on a new manufacturing process that replaces the layers of metal parts that hold the insides of most laptops together with a rigid aluminum shell.
The only real difference between these systems, in fact, is the stands--the Soundspace 10 has none, while the 11s are extruded aluminum, and the 21's aforementioned motorized system sits inside rosewood-fringed metal screens.
In the materials group, Reliance Steel, one of the largest U.S. metals service centers, distributes a line of more than 100, 000 metal products, including carbon, alloy, stainless and specialty steel, aluminum, brass as well as copper products.
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Its body is constructed entirely of plastic, save the aluminum power button up top and volume rocker on the side, plus the sliver of metal serving as the earpiece grill.
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Once you house an antenna structure inside of an aluminum body, you also have shadowing effects to overcome, this is caused by the metal body affecting the radiated signal, as well as the inbound signals from the cell sites.
Metal-forming technologies are used to shape hard industrial metals like steel, iron and aluminum into the components that are needed to make everything from computers and iPads to cars and trucks.
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